The Republican journal., 1887-12-15
News Of Belfast and Vicinity.


Little River bridge has been repaired and is now
passablc.
Water has been put into the Windsor Hotel and
the Belfast postoilice.
The County Commissioners will begin their
December session of court in this city OH Tuesday
next.
company of young people in this city
hearsing for play to he put on the stage later in
the season.
MI W. +. Mitchell, postmaster at the Head of
the Tide, Belfast, reported last week as i'll from
paralysis, is recovering.
Large quantities of hay came to market last
week but went mostly into the store houses. Good
hay is worth $l2 per ton.
Judge Walton will preside at the January term
of the s. j. Court in this city, beginning the first
Tuesday of the month.
| The friends of Mr.. Frank y. IIodgdon will be
panied to learn of his death, which occurred at his
home in Boston, Tuesday, of typhoid pneumonia.
! Constable Partridge has notified owners of build
ngs in Belfast and the county, in which liquor is
sold. of their liability and of his intention to prose
| cute.
| Those having clothing to give the needy may be
sure they will he judiciously disposed of if left
| with Mrs W. b. Conant, Miss Mary Collier or Miss
| Mary stewart.
| Among the many show windows in town none
are more deliberately and handsomely decorated
than those of Mr.. Geo. w. Burkett. The trimming
was done by Mr.. Rainfall, his clerk.
samuel Briggs, of Freedom, serving a four years
sentence in State prison for shooting with intent to
kill, appeared before committee OF the Executive
Council last week and asked for pardon.
! Cranbcrides have advanced in price and were
| quoted last week at Sll per barrel. Mcdonald \
Brown this city, have $50 bushels in store, and
II. l.. Woodcock and II, ii. Sides each have Il
quantity.
The Cottrell Bros, of this city, who are engaged
in the poultry business, have 800 eggs which will
! hatch out at Christmas, and from that time for
ward their incubators will turn out chicks in large
numbers.
Sanbori's orchestra, of this city, which has
achieved deserved success for its excellent music,
will be increased to eleven pieces this winter.
There is no better orchestra in Maine for concerts
! or dances.
The wild horses sold in Belfast last summer are
not turning well. Mr. Dollofr, of this city, who
| bought two was not satisfied with them. The one
bought by Geo. o. Bailey of Capt Trim and later
reso'I, died from the injuries received in handling.
| Il vas stated in the Journal recently that Mr..
George W. Nish of Centre Montyillc, was insane.
| Physicians say this was an error. Mr.. Nash was
i'll, but is now in good health and has no signs of
! insanity. Mr.. Nash is a hay buyer and the report
/ lid Kim injury.
The insurance companies will come to Belfast to
! examine the water works whenever the chief ell
! sncer is ready. Mr.. Mcdonald says he wants
| some little time to practice the new hose COM
lanies and thinks the display will take place
after Christmas.
| The store on Main street owned by Arnold lIar-
liz, and formerly occupied saloon by the
knowlton Bros, is undergoing repairs and will be
occupied by Mr.. Waterman, who will move his
clothing business there. \ plate glass front will
he put in and the premises put in irst-cass condi
ton.
! 4 hotel meeting was held last Saturday evening
and the committee appointed to ascertain if the
| stockholders would consent to an increase of the
capital stock, and TO mortgaging the building for
the amount necessary to complete it, reported
isfactoiy progress. Another meeting will be held
this Thursday evening.
A gentleman of this city who wished to make his
| wife Il present of muff, took home two for her to
select from, one cheap and the other high
prcedartice. Thinking to have a little fun at tile
expense of his better half he changed the labels.
The cheap was much admired, but seeing the
prir, on the ticket the wife said she could not
afford that AM would take the other. 1t looks a
little though the joke the man of tie
house.
Last week we announced that Mr.. IIaZcal Nc
Keen haI bought the ice business of the Shaw
Bros, of this city. Since then Mr. Mckeen has
sold !, half interest to Capt. james H. Perkins,
who will have charge of the business. Twelve
| hundred tons will be cut this winter on the Quincy
pond and stored on Mr.. \. L. Browns place. This
Will he for home consumption. The gentlemen will
| be ready to take advantage of good ice year and
will ship if the market warrants it.
| IMPROVEMENTS AT TIE DOCK. improvements
are still going on at Common street and in the vicn
tv OF the depot. The building owned by the rail
road company and occupied by Charles Lancaster
in the egg business, is to be torn down. The SYN
dcatc have moved a cooper shop from Common
street and its site will erect il building for Mr.
Lanrastcr'- egg business. The Mathews Bros.
|
Next season the Elliot store will be raised and
| made into tenement house.
| NEUROLOGY OF TIE WALDO COUNTY BAR. The
Reporter of Decisions has sent to Clerk of Courts
Waalin for the names of the lawyers of the Waldo
county bar who have died in the last decade. The
| following is the list, with the date Of death:
Nehemiah Abbott, July p, 1871; W. p Hartman.
Jan. 10, lS'S J. G. Dickcrson, Sept i, 1873; James
Il. Murch, April. ESQ; VIM. &. Crosby, March 2l,
| ISL; Hiram O. Alden, April b. 1884; W. ii. Bur
i oct $ 1854; A. q. Jewett, April is, 1882 all of
Belfast. David S. Flanders Monroe. 1852. Albert
l.. Kelley, Winterport, Aug. Is, 1885, and John
| Greeley, Palermo, 1888.
4 man from the country came into the store of
lIowes ~ Co. recently and remarked: 81 hear
You have good flour for 81 a barrel" 1--WE
have replied Mr. IIowes, "and will warrant it to
give satisfaction" Finally, on being told that if
the flour not all right he nec.l not pay for it,
barrel was taken on trial. Ono week later the man
| returned and paid for that barrel and bought two
more, and wanted the privilege of taking six bar
res later at the. same price. But as flour is al
read, advancing Mr.. Howes could not agree to
| the last proposition Good Hour at five dollars a
barrel is very cheap.
| Az ATTEMPT TO STEAL A WHISTLE. Mr. Or
ando Sanborn who runs a steam mill in Waldo
| for Woodworking purposes, recently bought Il
large whistle from steamship and placed it on his
mill. \ number of boys conceived the idea of
stealing the whistle, and Mr.. Sanborn hearing of
the plan remained in his mill all night. Sixty
pounds of steam was kept up. About midnight
the boys put in an appearance and climbed up on
| the roof of the building. just as one applied a
wrench to the whistle, Mr.. Sanborn opened the
throttle wide and there went up into the stiffness
OF the night such a scrcech as was never before
heard in Waldo. People jumped from their beds
i'll alright and wondered what was up. The bows
tumbled of the roof of that mill as though shot,
and as they departed, rapidly their legs would
carry them Sanborn ircda gun. The whistle is still
there.
STEAMER NOTES. The Penobscot took every
body by surprise by arriving here at O'Clock Fri
day morning. Since the three trips per week ar
ransemcnt went into effect most of the storms have
been on the off nights and the boats lave suffered
no detention. The steamer Caroline Miller has
made the run from New York to Bangor inside of
forty hours. The NJ. 4 NJ. has an occasional
"break-down," but still sticks to the Bangor and
Rockland route. The Electa is doing well on the
Belfast, isesborO and Castine route and is lust
the boat wanted for that business :. The Caroline